· Private foundation
Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HOUSTON | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $25,000 |
| KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEARING & SPEECH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE INC | $15,000 |
| SAN JOSE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $15,000 |
| SoleAna STABLES | $12,000 |
| THE MENINGER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIDS' MEALS INC | $10,000 |
| AUTISM TREATMENT CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| INSPIRATION RANCH INC | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| WESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $352k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR3× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +69%
The Houston Food Bank3× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +36%- HHHouston Hospice3× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FBFURNITURE BANK HOUSTONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- MTMiller Theatre Advisory Board Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +142%
- TBTHE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
Houston Pets Alive!s (HPA!) mission is to save the lives of at-risk companion cats and dogs and find them loving homes.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
Fostering family dba the riverside project is a 501(c)(3) public charity that on behalf of houston's children and their families, brings together organizations and passionate people working as one to help families heal and children thrive.
Humane Society of Harris County's mission remains steadfast: to provide high-quality adoption, transport, foster, Trap, neuter, release, and pet food pantry services to our community. Yet, with a fresh perspective and a renewed passion,…
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inspiration Ranch Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Adam McCauley Family Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 133 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS-BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds CASA DE ESPERANZA DE LOS NINOS INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS COUNTRY OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Miller Theatre Advisory Board Inc ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds SIRE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds BLUEBONNET EQUINE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of North Texas ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ETOSHA RESCUE & ADOPTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHINQUAPIN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Street Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds Small Steps Nurturing Center ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR HEARING AND SPEECH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE TEXAS PANHANDLE ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The Brown Foundation Inc · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · United Way of Greater Houston · The Elkins Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · MD Anderson Foundation · Sterling-Turner Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert W Knox & Pearl Wallis Knox Charitable funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.